Should we recommend data.world for Artsdata users?

[saumier]

data.world is a portal to load and share data. It could be used to provide data to Artsdata Databus. Also to use data from Artsdata.

[saumier]

There is also terminusdb.com to explore. I am not sure what the differences are when compared with data.world.

[saumier]

My idea here is that an arts organization could create a free account on data.world to link to their Google spreadsheet.

With data.world the user can:

1. Collect one or more Google spreadsheets to be loaded into Artsdata (or other sources)
2. Apply a license to their data by choosing cc0 or PDM (offered in a drop down)
3. Automatically sync their data with Artsdata whenever their data in their Google spreadsheet changes.

This would get data into Artsdata with a license, but would not yet be that useful because it would not be modelled according to the Artsdata model (just a spread sheet).

To convert their tabular excel sheet into the Artsdata data model, a technical person (from Culture Creates or somewhere else in the larger Artsdata community) would create transformation instructions and store them in Artsdata. This transformation would be run automatically by the Artsdata Databus whenever data is uploaded.